Car parking space availability signs still not working
It looks like the Council may finally be reinstating the remote car park space availability systems.
The real time information – available on street signs and via the internet – was abandoned some 5 years ago.
Now a £98,000 contract has been awarded to Swarco Traffic Ltd for the provision of new control equipment
Lincoln Court
Notwithstanding the fact that the York Council still has an planning application outstanding for the redevelopment of Lincoln Court, it has gone ahead and awarded a construction contract covering the building, and a plan to establish a centre for disabled children on the Windsor House site.
The £4.7 million construction contract has been awarded to Sewell’s, the company who were involved in the PFI deal on the adjacent Hob Moor school development 15 years ago.
The number of tenders received for the work has not been revealed by the Council.
The completion date for the contract is 31st January 2021.
Acomb Explore Library
Papers released by the Council this week suggest that a major upgrade to the Acomb Explore Library will be completed by 2022. £4 million has been set aside for works at the Acomb and Clifton Libraries in the Councils budget.
The news will be welcomed in Acomb. It is 10 years since land was acquired to the rear of the library which was intended to accommodate an extension. The hope was then that the building would become a “one stop shop” for public services. It would have partly replaced the neighbourhood “Acomb Office” which Labour closed in 2013. There was hope that policing and health activities might relocate to the site.
The Council says, that the priority is “for investment in Acomb, to build on the great success of that Explore Centre, and in Clifton to transform the quality of service in that area. Individual business cases will be brought forward during 19/20 demonstrating how the investment will contribute to delivering service transformation and driving the generation of additional income streams”
The announcement comes amid rising tensions over the future of the libraries contract. The Council invited tenders last year for continuation of the service – which is currently provided via a social enterprise organisation.
There has been no official confirmation that the existing provider has been allocated the new contract which is due to start on 1st April 2019.
The Council also last year agreed a planning application which will see houses built on the adjacent bowling green site. Objectors at the time stressed the need for a holistic solution to the redevelopment of all the vacant plots in the area.
